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The Fight for Customer’s Attention has Intensified The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of retail forever. eCommerce quickly took the center stage as more brands and retailers were coaxed to move their businesses online or take the omni-channel route. The number of online stores grew rapidly and with that the competition to get in […]
It’s no secret that the pandemic has pushed the needle on alcohol sales across the world, forcing retailers to migrate to digital and omnichannel formats almost overnight. The IWSR reported the largest gain in sales volumes across the US since 2002, with an accelerated adoption rate for online purchases of alcoholic beverages. The lockdown forced […]
Table of Content Introduction: Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the CPG Industry 5 Key CPG eCommerce Challenges Top CPG Trends In The New Age Retail Economy Best Practices to Win the Evolving Online CPG Market Conclusion: The Way Forward is Digital There is not one industry or business that wasn’t impacted by the pandemic […]
Shopify is an all-in-one, specialized global e-commerce platform that has been powering businesses of all sizes to start, grow, and market their online stores. Shopify has seen tremendous growth in the past few years and in 2018 saw growth 3 times more than that of its competitors. With e-commerce adoption growing rigorously and more retailers […]
Social distancing hasn’t only forced online grocery on retailers’ hands; it has also pushed individuals out of their comfort zones to adopt new buying behaviors. More and more people are now discovering their favorite brand apps and websites for the very first time. And if these remote services are adequately fulfilling user needs, that “discovery” […]
In some cases, the term “Six Sigma” is cryptically applied to describe a measure of quality adopted by a business organization. Truth be told, there’s a lot more to Six Sigma than simply the formless perception some may have of its principles. Essentially, this data-driven philosophy gets its name from the six standard deviations used […]
Billions of products are sold online, and there are numerous stores selling them. Identifying and matching products for various purposes like price comparison, becomes a challenge as there are no obvious global unique identifiers. This is where AI and Machine Learning come in. So Many Products and No Way to Match Them Across Stores There […]
Decades-old retailers with valuation in the billions are quaking in their boots, afraid of one name above all others: Amazon. The Seattle-based titan of e-commerce looms over the entire retail economy and is expanding to more and more verticals with each passing quarter. It’s only a matter of time until incumbents in the beauty industry […]
Grocery e-commerce is having its moment following Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition in June. So, it was about time that Walmart hopped on the bandwagon with some big guns. Jolt upright, the retail behemoth is readying to battle Amazon in the war to attract hungry online shoppers. As Food Dive puts it, “A fundamental shift is […]
Although the overwhelming majority of grocery shopping currently takes place in physical stores, experts suggest this pattern will change in the next decade, as grocery e-commerce is poised to boom in the next decade. In the U.S., online grocery shopping could grow five-fold to $100 billion by 2025, according to new research by Food Marketing […]
Want to infuriate your customers, destroy your reputation, and lose money? Of course you don’t. Ecommerce fulfillment problems are one of the fastest — and most common — routes to lost business, particularly among large brands with massive inventories. So what are the most common glitches? And how can you fix them?